Free ‘Doctor Who’ fun Wednesday, Jan. 19, & Friday, Jan. 21

Can’t stand all the cedar in the air? Be lucky you don’t suffer from a cold, lonely heart. Or, worse, spectrox toxaemia. Whatever your malady, Doctor Who Fans Unite has just the tonic with twice the free Doctor Who this week.

“A Christmas Carol” features our affable Eleventh Doctor tumble out of a chimney to rewrite the past of one Kazran Sardick, a real Scrooge who controls his planet’s fish-filled clouds like a science fiction Prospero. If the Doctor can’t show Kazran the Christmas spirit pretty damn quick, those strange clouds will take down a space liner with thousands of innocent lives on it, including a honeymooning Amy and Rory.

And because you can never get enough Charles Dickens, DWFU will also screen this Wednesday night “The Unquiet Dead,” which stars Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and the great Simon Callow as the great 19th century British author. It’s Christmas 1869 with Dickens moping through another public performance of “A Christmas Carol” (synergy!) until the seemingly walking dead wake up a whole new adventure in the dour scribe. Of course, running with the Doctor and Rose can enliven even the most melancholy fellow.

As with all free Doctor Who screenings at the Drafthouse, make sure you hit the box office early for a free ticket to secure your seat.

“The Caves of Androzani” marks the last regular appearance of Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor and the debut of Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor. In “Androzani,” our celery-sporting Fifth Doctor and his companion Peri not only contract the lethal spectrox toxaemia but also get stuck in a deadly spectrox mining imbroglio. I’m not the biggest fan of mining tales, but Doctor Who Magazine readers voted “Androzani” as their favorite so it must be worth the watch.

So many Time Lord shenanigans to be had, so pick your poison and your cure.